Method of converting scrap metal into merchant bars



METHOD OF CONVERTING SCRAP METAL lIld'IO MERCHANT BARS.

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, out or manipulation of the manufacturing process of box piling and of wrought iron and steel scrap by amalgamating therewith sui'licient molten metal, of any suitable in-, gredient to procure a perfectly homogeneous 3 weld of the scrap material.

U My invention relates to the treatment and method of the reworking of wrought iron and steel scrap of miscellaneous character,

Uand has toritsuliurther object to provide a imethod of amalgamating any suitable ingredients of new molten metal, of iron or.

steel with the scrap to materially improve the quality and to secure a perfectly homogeneousweld and to reducethe costthereol.

In the manufacture of iron orsteel bars,

strips, or plates, it is universally conceded to be practically impossible to produce satisfactory finished bars, strip, or plates, di-

rect from the scrap material alone, and therefore some new material such as puddled iron or steel must be added to insure a homogeneous weld and to improve the quality of the impoverished scrap material.

The purpose of my invention therefore is to minimize the cost of manipulating; the

box piling process in the manufacture oi? bars, strip or plates by dispensing with consideralole skilled labor, required in the puddling process, and thereby to expedite the tonnage at considerably less cost.

Heretoiore fagots, bundles and piles of scrap have been immersed by me in a bath of molten iron silicate slap; in a furnace to obtain a homogeneous weld, but this necessitates the scrap being well tied up in such a manner as to insure the fagot, bundle or pile holding together.

My improved method or processphowever, applies particularly to the art of reworking miscellaneous scra material of iron or steel, in which methoddo not have to bundle, pile, or tie the scrap together, but can use scrap of any shape or form in its loose consmall or large up to a given size, and

Specification of Letters Patent.

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therebysave the cost, of malring theheretoiore necessary iag'ots, bundles or piles, and therefore purpose to use molds similar to the ordinary ingot molds used at the open hearth of any steel works, and instead of piling and tying; together, I purpose to fill the metal molds with the loose scrap mater al, and then to run in,over the scrap cuttings, a mixture of molten metal, either over the cold scrap, or the scrap may be preheated in any suitable furnace; 'lhisoperation will expedite matters and can be accomplished with unskilled labor. When the molten metal. has solidified, the molds will be removed, and the resulting ingot, or

loom, may be charged in a heating furnace, reheated and rolled or hammcrediinto bars, strip, or plates as required. Ur, on the other hand, the ingot, or bloom, may be first treated in a suitable -furnace to reduce the carbon it desired, and thereafter rolled or hammered as usual.

rte molten metal, I purpose using, can be produced in any suitable furnace, open hearth, or cupola, as may be desired, and

the quality of said molten metal can. be yarierlns occasion. demands The advantages oi my invention are, that no skilled labor will be required, and no bundles, or piles, to be made or and the filling of the molds will be more expeditious with less labor, and tl c amalgamation of the molten metal can be produced at little cost and almost of any quality desired, thus nourishing the impoverished scrap material which must he most advantageous in the production o l the f nished material after rolling, and resulting in a perfectly homogeneous weld.

do not limit myself to any particular sire of the molds, as the same process or method may be worked advantageously at steel plants, when specified analyses are not required,

Having thus described my invention, what claim and desire to protect by Let- Patent of the United hltates is l. The process or method of producing a compact integral mass of iron or steel material in the form of an ingot, bloom, lt'agot, bundle, or pile, from miscellaneous particles of iron or steel'scrap, which consists in assembling miscellaneous particles of iron or steel scrap in a mold, then pouring over the said scrap within the mold a new substantially slagless molten refined mass of iron or steel, to unite the particles of scrap to form a compact unit such as an ingot, bloom, fagot, bundle, or pile.

2. The process or method of the amalgamation of sections, or particles of miscellaneous iron or steel scrap wit-h amoltenrefined mass of iron or steel metal added thereto, to form an integral ingot, bloom, fagot. bundle, or pile, which consists in assembling miscellaneous particles of iron or steel scrap in a mold, then pouring over said scrap within the said mold a new n'iolten," refined, substantially slagless, mass of ironor steel, to "form or make apractical unit adapted for a continuous heating furnace.

J3.-The processor method of amalgamating a new molten refined metal of iron. or

steel, "with particles of iron or steel scrap for the purpose of nourishing the impoverished portion of scrapma'terial to produce a sound ductile quality of finished productspwhich consists in assembling miscel- 'laneous particles of "iron or steel scrap in amold, then pouring over said scrap "\Vlthlll "said mold a new molten refined substantially slagless mass of iron or steel, filling all the interstices within the mold to form a, compact integral mass of material.

' 4L The process or method to secure a per slagless mass of iron or steel, to bind the said scrap material in a compact integral ducing a homogeneous mass of iron or steel,

which consists in forming an ingot, bloom, iagot, bundle or pile, by introducing particles of iron or steel scrap into a mold, heating such particles then pouring over said particles within the mold while in the heated condition a new molten refined mass of iron or steel, to unite with the particles of scrap to form a compact unit, allowing the unit to solidify and removing the same from the mold, reheating the unit, and mechanically working the unit to produce the desired finished product which is homogeneous throughout.

'6. The herein described method of producing a homogeneous mass of iron or steel, which consists in forming an ingot, bloom,

.fagot, bundle or pile, by introducing. particles of iron or steel scrap into a mold, then pouring over said particles within the mold and while the particles are in a heated condition a new molten refined mass of metal which is similar to the metal of the scrap already within the mold, to unite the partic'les of scrap to form a unit, allowing the unit to solidify and removing the same from the mold, reheating the unit, and mechanically working the unit to produce the desired finished product which is homogeneous throughout.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

JOHN T. WENYON. 

